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Life finds a way. I think in some ways, CCD has probably "pruned" the bee population in a good way. Beekeeping allowed weaker hives that would have normally died off in the wild to continue to spawn new hives. CCD has reversed that trend, and may have improved the overall strength of the bee population genetics.

The anonymous inventor of bitcoin had a 50 bitcoin put into the first address in the blockchain. It's never been moved (because you can see when bitcoins get moved) but today he moved 50 bitcoin out of the account. We're not totally sure if it's him though, it could have been a bug or a malicious transaction.

For some reason, the map seems to be categorizing technology jobs as green (Healthcare, Education, and Government). Look at SF, and it's almost completely green.

Seems like some serious tech. It looks to be using GPS and some wireless signals to determine distance and direction?

Im guessing GPS because their user manual says it can only be used outdoors.

I wonder if it can be miniaturized in future versions- seems like you could eliminate GPS if you used a synthetic aperture bluetooth or wireless receiver to determine direction and ranging for tracking.

Actually not that surprising, Taylor Swift was featured heavily in Apple's promo video (first album art featured), so clearly contracts were in place. TS was Apple's secret weapon and could be a key differentiator from Spotify. (TS has no music on Spotify.) I think TS was in a really good bargaining position. If she had pulled out, it would have been a big loss for Apple Music. Smart Move.

"We're using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry,"

Companies that describe their computer systems as state-of-the-art probably usually have legacy mainframes with duct tape patches.

Who is Rasier LLC? This seems to be some sort of shell corp for Uber's insurance.

Why doesn't Zenefits just become a payroll provider? Is the an enormous amount of regulation around providing payroll services?

Why cant zenefits become their own payroll provider?

Can I get a simple wikipedia explanation? That was the most challenging wikipedia article I've ever read.

If they spin it off, it likely wouldn't IPO, Amazon would be the only stock holder. All profits from AWS are already factored into Amazon's stock price, another IPO would be unnecessary

I doubt it, AWS wills be one of the few profitable bright spots in amazons earnings calls. Clearly they're interested in developing it further and making it a key part of their business. Generally companies spin of areas if it's outside of their core business.

This isn't very groundbreaking, they're simply discovering the inherent weaknesses in neural net learning. We've know for years that neural nets have inherent gaps in their training and this is just taking advantage of that. This isn't really an issue in a real life scenario as you wouldn't be able to determine without thousands of recursions which images produce faulty results.

Uber Proxy: use uber in cities where it's banned but pay the driver by drawing an equi-distance route in a city that it's not banned in.

I think this is completely PR - they want to create buzz and excitement in the public for the "hot new spy plane" such that its politically impossible for congress to cancel the program/cut the budget.

Most car parts are already commodities anyway though. Example: Toyota and Lexus share almost every single part of the power train, its only the finishings that are different. And most car parts are made by a small number of OEM providers who sell to all the major car companies. Bosch, Denso, and Magna make most of the parts in your car.